Paul Mescal to star in Beatles film, Ridley Scott says
Rumours suggest actor will play Paul McCartney, with Barry Keoghan also linked to four-film biopic
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Barry Keoghan slams ‘inhumane’ abuse and harassment of his family: ‘I can only take so much’
Irish actor Barry Keoghan says people have been ‘sitting outside’ the homes of his grandmother and two-year-old son after his reported split from singer Sabrina Carpenter
Barry Keoghan set to feature in Beatles biopic, Ringo Starr says
No casting officially confirmed but names are being discussed, including Paul Mescal as McCartney
Paul Mescal: ‘My favourite actors are Irish. There’s a wildness. We do our own thing’
Gladiator II proves another showcase for Mescal’s tough and tender masculinity, giving rein to his natural instinct as an actor
Bird director Andrea Arnold on Barry Keoghan: ‘I thought he had the most incredible face. Wow. What a man’
The English film-maker talks about tough shoots, her working-class background and working with Irishmen Keoghan and Robbie Ryan
Barry Keoghan: ‘I’m not an absent father ... people love to use my son as ammunition’
Dublin actor tells The Louis Theroux Podcast ‘people draw a narrative and go absent father, sh*t, deadbeat dad’
First Look: Barry Keoghan’s new film, the sometimes sickeningly extreme Bring Them Down, is a hard movie to like
Christopher Andrews’s gory new rural revenge drama features scenes of animal mutilation that quickly outstay their welcome
Barry Keoghan to star alongside Cillian Murphy in Peaky Blinders film
Dublin actor will take on an undisclosed role in Steven Knight’s Birmingham-based period drama
Sabrina Carpenter: Short n’ Sweet – Pop’s hottest property mixes eye-rolling takedowns with provocative glamour
The star’s breezy collection of songs treads a thin line between frivolous and throwaway. Isn’t that just what a pop album should do?
Nicola Coughlan becomes latest celebrity to model for Kim Kardashian’s Skims
Galway actor appeared in Instagram post from underwear brand, saying: ‘Everybody’s wearing Skims’
Six Irish cultural touchstones for Barry Keoghan’s popstar girlfriend Sabrina Carpenter
Sabrina Carpenter needs to be educated in the ways of Mattress Mick, stone-age election recounts and keeping corpses company before the big day
Barry Keoghan on playing a working-class dad: ‘I see a lot of traits in Bug that remind me of home. He’s a pure chancer’
Cannes diary 2024: Meryl Streep ‘didn’t quite nail’ the Australian accent and Megalopolis staggers its way to nowhere worth going
Cannes 2024: Bird review – Barry Keoghan excels as a likeable dad geezer
Film showcases director Andrea Arnold’s gift for artful shepherding of apparent chaos, while allowing new and surprising elements
Cannes 2024: 12 things you need to know about this year’s film festival
From the unstoppable Irish to the return of Mad Max, we have all the inside info from the Côte d’Azur
Bambie Thug impresses the scholars with Ogham messaging
Ireland’s Eurovision entrant gets top marks for using ancient alphabet correctly
Begorrah Keoghan, Kerrygold Murphy and our friend Siobhan: Micksploitation has gone mainstream again
Donald Clarke: Nobody likes a postcolonial moaner, but it’s odd that casually ridiculing the Irish can be regarded as only the most minor social misdemeanour
From Barry Keoghan to Timothée Chalamet, celebrities emerge as the new men’s jewellery tastemakers
The glitterati have sparkled their way through awards season this year in diamond-dripping, gem-studded brooches, chokers and cocktail rings
Ifta awards: Cillian Murphy and That They May Face the Rising Sun take home top prizes
Lies We Tell claims most awards of the night, including best actress for Agnes O’Casey, as Paul Mescal wins best supporting actor for All of Us Strangers
Cannes 2024: Irish films to have unprecedented prominence at festival
Three Element Pictures productions will feature in official selection, with Yorgos Lanthimos’s Kinds of Kindness competing for the Palme d’Or
Michael D Higgins’s dogs, Cillian Murphy’s blue eyes and Enya’s voice: Patrick Freyne’s 30 real Irish icons
Forget national heroes, martyrs and rank celebs. These are the certifiable emblems of our small but great nation
Ifta nominations 2024: Lisa Mulcahy’s Lies We Tell tops table with 13 nods
Cillian Murphy, Barry Keoghan, Barry Ward and Andrew Scott nominated in best actor category
What makes the Happy Pear unhappy? Building a 5G mast beside their organic farm
Plus: Jack Crowley’s financial conversion, architect Tom de Paor’s Wicklow woes, Siún Ní Raghallaigh’s Galway house sale, and Dublin jarveys say neigh to Harry Crosbie
Barry Keoghan, Andrew Scott and Paul Mescal as stars of four Beatles biopics? I’ve heard better ideas
Donald Clarke: The musical biopic is among the most benighted of cinematic genres, but there is perhaps more chance of innovation with Sam Mendes’s planned set
Mike Murphy’s D4 pad, Eamon Ryan’s TV crew and keeping Barry Keoghan’s clothes on
Plus Michael Lynn and the missing penthouse, is James Dyson moving to Waterford, and the value of Artist Hughie O’Donoghue’s Original Sin paintings
‘It reminded us of partying with drunk British people’: Time to Pretend stars MGMT on watching Saltburn
The song and its album were twin juggernauts whose success ‘hipster geeks’ Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser never tried to follow
Barry Keoghan and his Irish buttocks: the naked Vanity Fair shoot is a win for the actor
Donald Clarke: Being talked about matters. And this is us talking about him
Baftas red-carpet fashion: Irish men have seriously raised their game
Paul Mescal, Andrew Scott Murphy and Barry Keoghan all did strong work in flying the fashion flag for Ireland
What do the Baftas tell us about Ireland’s Oscar hopes?
The Age of Cillian has firmly arrived, but past history tells us anything can happen between now and next month
Baftas 2024: the complete list of winners
Oppenheimer takes top Baftas as Irish-produced film Poor Things and Zone of Interest also triumph
TV guide: 12 of the best new shows to watch this week
From Domhnall Gleeson and Andrea Riseborough in new romantic drama Alice & Jack to Michael Sheen creation The Way
Scene stealer: Chiabella James on Barry Keoghan, Saltburn and the art of Hollywood stills photography
Her work on Star Wars, Mission: Impossible and Dune, among others, has earned her a stellar reputation. But it almost didn’t turn out that way
James Dyson’s Irish bolthole, Sinéad O’Connor’s painting addiction and Barry Keoghan’s inner wolf
Plus: Libel lawyer Paul Tweed’s mystery High Court action and sports agent Conor Ridge’s bid for solace
Everyone loves Ireland! Why is Irish culture so hot right now?
From cinema and theatre to television, folk music and literature, Ireland is enjoying unprecedented creative boom
Masters of the Air review: Barry Keoghan shows there is more to him than high-concept shiftiness
Television: The Dublin actor fits comfortably into the vast canvas of the show helping to keep airborne what will surely go down as one of the most epic projects to soar across the small screen this year
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